Species of African Soli£uga3 and Arauete. 19 



line is straiglit and lies far back, the posterior medians are 

 about five or six diameters apart, the distance between them 

 is about two thirds the distance between either and the poste- 

 rior laterals of the same side; median quadrangle very 

 narrowed in front, very long, considerably more than twice 

 as long as its posterior width and more than four times its 

 anterior width. Eyes of anterior line close-set, procurved, 

 lower edge of medians only a little higher than upper edge of 

 laterals, which are much smaller ; clypeus low, only about 

 equal to the height of the quadrangle formed by the eyes of 

 the anterior line, the laterals of which are about twice their 

 diameter above it. 



Length 7 millim. 



Loc. Jansenville {Miss Lejypan). 



Family Drassidae. 



Platyotdes pictus, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 7.) 



$ . — Carapace and mandibles almost coral-red or pale 

 yellow in the young ; legs pale brownish red or yellow ; 

 abdomen ashy white, the upperside with a broad marginal 

 black baud and a median black, anteriorly bifurcating stripe ; 

 sternum with a dark marginal band. 



Anterior median eyes a little larger than the laterals, 

 slightly more than a diameter apart, a little nearer to each 

 other than either is to the lateral ; posterior medians large, 

 larger than the anterior medians, elliptical, a little more than 

 their long diameter apart, about twice as far from the poste- 

 rior laterals as from each other. 



Mandihle with tooth below. 



Legs without spines or long hairs ; tarsi and protarsi 

 lightly scopulate. 



Horny plate of vulva impressed with a pair of semioval 

 pits, opening behind and separated in front by a V-shaped 

 process ; between the lateral lobes of the vulva a somewhat 

 tongue- shaped sclerite is traceable. 



Total length 8 millim. ; length of carapace 3, width 2*5. 



Loc. Tea Fountain, near Grahamstown, Cape Colony 

 [Miss Leppan) . 



Platyoides Leppano], sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 8.) 



$ . — Colour. Carapace and mandibles deep blackish brown ; 

 legs testaceous, infuscate beneath and at extremities ; sternum 

 reddish brown, with a blatk rim ; abdomen ashy or creamy 

 white in alcohol, with a broad marginal black band and a 

 median, posteriorly narrowing, black stripe. 



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